Pope Nicholas V (Person) AKA Tommaso Parentucelli
Pope Nicholas V
1397 AD - 1455 AD
AKA Tommaso Parentucelli
Pope of the Catholic Church 1447 — 1455
Nicholas V's his major focus was on establishing the Vatican as the official residence of the Papacy, replacing the Lateran Palace. He added a substantial new wing including a private chapel to the Vatican, and – according to Giannozzo Manetti, biographer of Nicholas – planned substantial changes to the Borgo district. He also laid up 2,522 cartloads of marble from the dilapidated Colosseum for use in the later constructions.
The Pope's contemporaries criticised his lavish expenditure on building: Manetti drew parallels with the wealth and expenditure of Solomon, suggesting that Papal wealth was acceptable so long as it was expended to the glory of God and the good of the Church.
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